Grain Engulfment Prevention
As summer nears its end, elevators are preparing for an influx of grain: cleaning bins, inspecting machinery...
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Nearly 50 Attend GEAPS...
A total of 48 elevator personnel and firefighters took part in a four-day comprehensive workshop on grain entrapment prevention and rescue...
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RES-Q Tube Saves Lives
In an industry where safety is a major concern, Consolidated Grain and Barge Co. has gone the extra mile to ensure the well-fare of their employees and farm residents near one of their 70 facilities...
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Gallatin Co Grain Bin...
Gallatin County - It doesn't take long for someone trapped in a grain bin to suffocate to death. On Saturday first responders from three area counties are training to rescue someone from a grain bin...
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Farm Week Spotlight
July 26, 2010 - More than 150 volunteer firefighters and farm families from Monroe and Randolph counties participated in recent grain bin entrapment and farm safety program...
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Grain Engulfment Rescue...
July 21, 2010 -Clear Lake, IA - "It felt real tight across the chest an then your legs and knees, you can't really move that easy...
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SILO RESCUE DRILL AT PRIMELAND
LEWISTON - Every second counts in rescue situation, especially an industrial one. And that's why Primeland Co-op is . . .
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Firefighters Learn How To Rescue Someone Buried In Grain
With almost 30 classes packed into just three days during the 73rd annual Nebraska State Fire School in Grand Island, there simply wasn't time for every volunteer firefighter to take every course that was offered . . .
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GSI Engulfment Training
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Bin Safety and Rescue
A Definition of Prevention
Prevention is just that – trying to prevent an incident from occurring or minimizing the end result of an incident. First, we need to tackle the question of whether or not a confined space entry permit is required
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Emergency Bin Entry
From time to time, I still hear people arguing about the differences or technicalities between “confined space permit-required” situations vs. “bin entry.” There are a number of issues that we must address in order to comply with OSHA’s standards for entering bins, silos, and/or permit-required confined spaces...
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Bin Rescue Classes
Building on the success of its first bin-rescue course in June 2005, the Grain Elevator and Processing Society (GEAPS) will be offering two more in 2006. One is scheduled
for May 9-11 in Berlin, MD and the second for June 13-15 in Frankenmuth, MI.
The courses, designed to raise awareness about bin-rescue procedures and equipment, will provide extensive hands-on training.
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Bin Rescue Training
The Grain Elevator and Processing Society (GEAPS) has approved a plan that will provide two three-day grain-bin safety and technical rescue training courses in 2005 and 2006. If the programs meet expectations, others will be scheduled subsequently.
In a meeting in Albuquerque, NM Feb. 26, the GEAPS board of directors agreed to contract with Madison Heights, MI-based Safety and Technical Rescue Association (SATRA) to develop and provide the training programs.
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Bin Rescue Workshop
The Grain Elevator and Processing Society’s first-ever three-day binrescue training course in late June was a sellout. Registration for the class in Frankenmuth, MI was limited to 30, and that’s the number of participants from around the United States and Canada who came. As a result, the GEAPS International board of directors has voted to schedule two more courses in 2006.
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